Church of the Holy Spirit (Batumi)

The Church of the Holy Spirit (Georgian: სულიწმიდის კათოლიკური ეკლესია) is a Roman Catholic church in the Black Sea city of Batumi, Georgia’s autonomous republic of Adjara. It was constructed in the late 1990s by the Georgian architects Oleg Pataridze and Giorgi Baghoshvili and consecrated in 2000.[1]

Church of the Holy Spirit in Batumi

The building replaced the earlier church which was confiscated by communists during the Soviet occupation but since 1989 serves as the Georgian Orthodox Cathedral of the Mother of God.

References
  1. (in Georgian) ბათუმის სული წმიდის სახელობის კათოლიკური ეკლესია The Batumi Church of the Holy Spirit Archived 2007-10-12 at the Wayback Machine. Catholic Church in Georgia. Retrieved on May 10, 2009


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